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The Cheetahs’ ingenious agreement with Toyota should wake Saru up to a new way of thinking.
The struggling Cheetahs have been tamed this season but the Lions have regained their roar.
For many reasons, this season’s Super Rugby will be more unpredictable than ever.
The top teams have made it to the Currie Cup semifinals with the Lions showing their claws and Pollard giving the Bulls horns.
Cheetahs players Brussow and Le Roux complement each other in a way that adds up to more than one plus one.
The Cheetahs have lifted themselves off the bottom of the overall points log, switching places with the Stormers.
Given the mixed performances, it’s impossible to predict who the top six teams will be for Super Rugby, writes Andy Capostagno.
Cheetahs flyhalf Riaan Smit hit the upright with a last minute conversion attempt to hand ACT Brumbies a 15-13 victory on Sunday.
The Bulls cemented their local dominance in Super Rugby when they beat their closest rivals the Cheetahs 30-23 during the weekend’s 16th round.
There comes a time when promise has to be turned into achievement. That moment has arrived for Naka Drotske’s Cheetahs.
The Cheetahs lost their way, skipper Adriaan Strauss admitted, after their 39-34 defeat to the Hurricanes in Bloemfontein.
The Cheetahs have stunned the Sharks and moved to the top of the South African Vodacom Super Rugby Conference with a 12-6 victory in Durban.
The confidence engendered by winning on a regular basis has obviously had a profound effect on the entire Cheetahs team.
The Cheetahs won their fourth successive Super Rugby match with a 34-16 victory over the Melbourne Rebels at the Free State Stadium on Saturday.
Demoralised Aussies, who left blood on the bus – not the field – are painfully short of top players.
The Currie Cup has produced a three-month competition involving just six teams and, as a result, every match is important.
Following a Test match season that failed to ignite for South Africa, the domestic year draws to a close over the next month in schizophrenic fashion.
A strong second-half recovery against the Cheetahs saw the Sharks earn their spot in the Super Rugby playoffs.
The Stormers managed to edge out the Cheetahs 13-6 in their Super Rugby tie at a wet Free State Stadium.
Cheetahs captain Adriaan Strauss says he is pleased with the five points his side earned in their Super Rugby victory over the Waratahs.
The Cheetahs moved to 10th on the overall Super Rugby log with a win over the Waratahs in Bloemfontein.
Sharks increased their chances of qualifying for the knock-out stages of this year’s Super Rugby tournament with a 34-20 victory over the Cheetahs.
A plan to reintroduce cheetahs to India from Africa has been axed by the courts after experts said the idea was "totally misconceived".
Rugby players that attended the four-day Springbok camp in Pretoria say they now have a better understanding of what is expected from them.
The Toyota Cheetahs were by far the better outfit in their 26-5 victory over the Lions in their Super Rugby match at the Free State Stadium.